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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

As with the infamous USB cake, some Wrecks cannot be fully appreciated until you know the story behind them. Fortunately, you guys looove to tell me your stories - some of which I've been hoarding to include in the upcoming Cake Wrecks book - and now I think it's high time to start featuring more of them.

Ashley J. had two male coworkers each expecting a child, so the office decided to get them a cake. They wanted it to say, "Happy Fatherhood Shawn and Glenn".

Instead, they got this:

Like you, I'm sure, Ashley & the gang were just dying to know what the decorator thought he or she was writing, exactly. So, they decided to go find out. Yep, that's right: They grabbed a video camera (did I mention they work at the Fox television animation studio?) and strolled down the street to pay a little visit to the bakery in question.

Ashley, I think it's safe to say we all forgive you. It's just too bad the manager didn't have as much of a sense of humor as you guys did; after all, I think you and Rebner were extremely pleasant about it, all things considered. :)

That was awesome!! too bad they didn't get to meet the decorator. Too bad the woman behind the counter at the end (who was it?) wasn't getting the joke. I was laughing so much I was afraid to wake the kids!

Fantastic. Ashley, big props for going back and following up on this. "It's like a word journey." That is awesome. As is Falker Satherhood, of course. The reaction of the guy in the bakery is pretty good too. Just looks at it, cracks up, looks at it, and loses it again.

Jenn, fantastic selection for a Monday morning. What a great way to start off the week!

I would HAVE to go in and talk to the "little old lady who needs glasses...and a transmission."I couldn't NOT go--it is just such an weird mystery about WHY there ended up being SIX (!!!) extra letters in there! Mind-boggling. Take out the extra "lkersa" and it would've been okay, you know?Is that "lkersa" a code for something subversive? Maybe the poor old thing needs a hearing aid, as well as glasses...I'm thinking that it's not *that* much of a reach--(all things considered)--to suppose that she MIGHT have HEARD: "Fatherhood, in cursive" --and couldn't spell (or do spacing) worth a darn, and wrote on what she thought was just the ticket. "Fa (in cursive, i.e.: lkersa)therhood."I'm trying to make sense of this, here, but forget it--that's just ridiculous. PLEASE, someone- I'm begging you-- go back and find out WHY the bloody hell she did that!=^0(0^=

I bet the decorator did a cake for Walker Sutherland just before this one.

Dial up users -- basically, the guy goes to the bakery counter and tells the clerk that he wants to meet the person who decorated their cake and shows the clerk a polaroid. The clerk reads it, looks puzzled, laughs, the guy makes comments like, "it's a real treat, we just want to meet the decorator, that's a treasure" etc etc while the clerk is cracking up. The clerk says the lady who did it is not there. He says he might be able to get them some money back on the cake and goes to see his manager. In the end they talk to another lady who is pretty serious and says the lady isn't there, asks if they have a receipt, and gives them the store manager's name and number. I think the cake is more funny than the video.

I need to know what she was thinking!! this is fantastic. the guy on the counter is brilliant. we shouldn't be too hard on the woman on the desk, she was just trying to be professional, and you have to admire her ability to keep a straight face!!

Now my husband wants me to get him a cake that says "Happy Falker Satherhood!" That was HILARIOUS. I certainly hope that manager doesn't go through her *whole* life with that sense of humor! Life must be hard. =p: